[pkg-firebird-general] subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| marius popa, Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:53:35AM +0200 |=-
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> wrote:
> > In my understanding, this suggests that if the existing user is 
> > not in
> > the system uid range, adduser fails. Why there is no error message
> > about this I can't tell :/.
> it was added by me long time ago when there was an bug in debian
> package and you had to add the user manually
> anyway here is the firebird uid 1003 that caused the problem
> so seems that you must avoid creating firebird user by hand :)

or, use adduser --system when doing it manually :)

> i tested the update on another system and worked without issues , but
> there the user was created by package
> $id firebird
> uid=126(firebird)

Indeed. 1003 is not in the system uid range, 123 is.

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